CURIOUS ACTION
PRCMISE MADE TO FRIEND TWENTY -EIGHT YEARS * ! AGO. ' - LQNDON, Monday. Christian Lazard, the head of a famous French international banking firm, is defending a curious action in a Paris court, arising from a promise made *n 1903, when he held a modest job in New York. At that time he signed a paper promising a fripnd-and fellow-wprker, AIAeX Leon, £2000 as soon as Leon was tible to prove'that Lazard's perseral )fortune had reaehed £200,000. Leon rnade and* lost a f ortune in China, and then accidentally found Ihe paper, which Lazard, who con-trn-L -that he does not possess £200,000. says hesigrihd after drinking a . nnriher of cockt'ails.,
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 73, 17 November 1931, Page 2
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